. What pictures to see in America. Fig. 224—Madonna and Child. Luini. Crocker Art Gallery, Fig. 225—Venus and Adonis. Correggio. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento. CALIFORNIA 333 her eyes to heaven for wisdom from above toguide her. Very little is definitely known of the earlylife of Correggio (1494?-1534), except thathe was born in the town that gave him hisname, about 1494. Numberless curious leg-ends and stories have arisen from time to timeabout this original painter, for original he cer-tainly was, but it is doubtful if Antonio Al-legri, or Correggio as we know him, would rec-o
. What pictures to see in America. Fig. 224—Madonna and Child. Luini. Crocker Art Gallery, Fig. 225—Venus and Adonis. Correggio. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento. CALIFORNIA 333 her eyes to heaven for wisdom from above toguide her. Very little is definitely known of the earlylife of Correggio (1494?-1534), except thathe was born in the town that gave him hisname, about 1494. Numberless curious leg-ends and stories have arisen from time to timeabout this original painter, for original he cer-tainly was, but it is doubtful if Antonio Al-legri, or Correggio as we know him, would rec-ognize any of them. The one thing we doknow is that he was a painter par excellenceand that his pictures express the living, phys-ical beauty of humanity to the very acme ofsensuous pleasure. We are bound to admit, as we look at Ve-nus and Adonis (Fig. 225), that Correggiolacks strength in portraying the deeper emo-tions of life, yet his figures are alive and allplay a definite part in the composition. Fora climax, as it were, there is his magic veil oflight and shadow and color, so individual tha
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